Word: ambersions
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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¶ In Manhattan last week, a crowd of 18,000 jammed Madison Square Garden to watch two hard-hitting little lightweights scuffle for the world championship which Champion Barney Ross last month decided he had grown too heavy to defend. One was stocky, frog-faced Tony Canzoneri, who held the...
When Canzoneri and Ambers climbed into the ring last week Ambers was a 3-to-1 favorite, partly on the superstition that a champion who loses his title rarely wins it back, partly because Canzoneri, eight years older than his opponent, has indubitably lost some of his old enthusiasm for...
In the first round, Fuller landed short vicious lefts to Ambers' head. The second round was even. For the next twelve, Ambers drove his opponent around the ring, punching him as often as stamina would permit. In the 15th, with the decision safely won, the same bravado that caused...
Lou Ambers is billed as the "Herkimer Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and because his style of boxing is a cross between that of the late Harry Greb and an indignant Chinese laundry man. Son of a day laborer named Tony D'Ambrosio, he is a...
He learned boxing in a church basement, encouraged by his parish priest, Rev. Gustave Purificato, who still comes to all his fights. Lou Ambers has lost only one of his 46 professional bouts. Merciless in the ring, he dislikes watching fights because their brutality gives him insomnia, makes him sick...